Mar 4, 2008

interesting psak from Rav Elyashiv

Recently a question arose in a shul in Yerushalayim during davening. An EMT was given an aliya to the Torah. His beeper went off during the aliya and it was an emergency call. He had to run out in the middle of the aliya, without reciting the concluding brachos.

Neither the gabbai nor the person reading the Torah knew what to do - who should say the concluding brachos. I think the baal koreh himself recited the concluding brachos. They sent the question to Rav Elyashiv so they would know what to do in the future, if it should happen again.

Rav Elyashiv paskened that in such a situation, somebody else should be called up to the Torah, and that whole aliya should be read again. It does not help for the baal koreh to recite the concluding brachos.

Rav Elyashiv also added that in such a situation, when the replacement person is called up to the Torah, they should read an additional 3 (at least) psukim beyond the amount that had been read for the previous guy (for the EMT who ran out).

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